School Focussed INSET and the External Team: An Evaluative Case Study

Combining INSET and School‐based Work of Advisory Teachers

“…The major difference was that during the time the course was running all the school-based work of the Advisory Teachers would Downloaded by [University of Connecticut] at 16:27 12 October 2014 be with the individuals who were on the course. In adopting this approach the Advisory Teachers were attempting to fulfill expectations similar to those reported by Chatwin et al (1988) in evaluating the work of the Birmingham Support Team in running school-based INSET:…”

INSET and Education for Multicultural Society: a review of the literature

“…McGowan (1986) and Chatwin et al (1988) offer some insight into the role of the outsider when the outsider represents an LEA support team. McGowan suggests that, as part of an LEA team, the support teacher comes with a point of view and therefore the role is something other than pure consultancy.…”

“…Describing more recent work in the same LEA Chatwin et al (1988) return to the theme of teachers carrying out their own needs analysis and advocate low profile approaches which start from an acknowledgement of teacher professionalism and the need for partnerships. School-focused work requires that teachers define their own agenda and that programmes be 'tailor-made' for schools.…”